Indonesia vs Samoa: Annual patent applications per million people

Indonesia
5.05 applications per million people
in 2021
Samoa
4.68 applications per million people
in 2021
Indonesia rank
88th
Samoa rank
91st

Annual patent applications per million people over time

  • Indonesia
  • Samoa
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How they compare

Indonesia currently reports 5.05 applications per million people against 4.68 applications per million people in Samoa, a difference of 0.37 applications per million people.

That makes Indonesia's figure about 1.1 times Samoa's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 2014 it was Samoa ahead.

Indonesia ranks 88th and Samoa ranks 91st of 135 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual patent applications per million people
Unit
applications per million people
Source
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), via World Bank (2026); United Nations Population Division, national statistical offices, and Eurostat, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World i
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
135 places, 3,804 data points, 1980–2021
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